Dr Katherine Hoekman completed her B.A. (Hons), Dip.Ed. at Sydney University, and taught English and History at the Secondary level.

She served two terms as the Vice President of the New South Wales Association for Gifted and Talented Children Inc.

Completed the inaugural Certificate of Gifted Education and obtained her Master of Education and Ph.D degrees at the University of New South Wales - specialising entirely in the field of Gifted Education.

She has been lecturing in Gifted Education at the University of New South Wales since her appointment in 1994, as well as consulting schools on the ways in which they can meet the needs of their gifted students.

She has been an invited presenter at regional, national and international conferences. She was a keynote presenter at the Western Australian State Conference on Gifted Education in 1996 and the Australian International Conference in Melbourne in 1997. She was an also an invited speaker at the Wallace Symposium at the University of Iowa in May, 2000.

Her major research interests are the social and emotional development of the gifted, curriculum design and program evaluation, as well as creating a curriculum to meet the affective and motivational needs of gifted students.

Room

Please direct enquiries to Mathews Building, Level 14, Room 1402

Phone

9385 1972

E-Mail

k.hoekman@unsw.edu.au